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The strategy to draw a thousand unique visitors to a new blog in the first 24 hours is providing some interesting information . The 1kProject chokes against the odds, but its not done yet., blogmarks.net

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he very idea of Dave Berman going out on tour seemed unlikely even as late as the release of the excellent fifth Silver Jews LP, 2005's Tanglewood Numbers. In an interview I conducted with Berman prior to the release of Tanglewood he told me that he'd do it, "If it paid well and I could figure out away to get off by myself." Still, if it hadn't happened in the last 15 years, what were the odds it was going to go down now?, blogmarks.net

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Quote: The wager of the day on the site: "Will the World End on 6-6-06?" By 6 p.m. yesterday, 216 of the 700 gamblers had bet an average of just more than $2 that yes, the world would end. The odds stood at 100,000 to 1., blogmarks.net

A great description of the concept/math behind the Birthday problem. Basically, if you have 23 people in a room, odds are better than 50-50 that 2 folks will share the same birthday. Also the basis for the "Birthday attack" hacking vector. Given a hashing (1-way encryption) algorithm of fixed length output, multiple inputs can result in the same hash. It is very difficult to guess an alternate input that will hash into a match of a single given result. But given a large known set of results (e.g., a user account database table) it become more likely that an alternate input might result in a match of at least one existing hash. Thinking on such things keeps the mind sharp :), blogmarks.net